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THE IVORY PALACES OF 
THE KING. 



BY 

J. WILBUR CHAPMAN, D. D. 



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Fleming H. Revell Company, 

CHICAGO: I NEW YORK: 

14S and 150 Madison St. 30 Union Square, East. 

Publishers 0/ Evangelical Literature. 



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Copyright 1893. 
By Fleming H. Revell Company 






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DEDICATION. 

—TO MY WIFE.— 

WHOSE LOVING SYMPATHY HAS MADE IT POS- 
SIBLE AND EASY TO LIVE WHAT THIS 
LITTLE BOOK CONTAINS, AND WHOSE 
PERFECT SELF-SACRIFICE MADE 
THE WAY EASY TO TRAVEL,THAT 
I MIGHT "DO THE WORK OF 
AN EVANGELIST" THIS 
BOOKIS AFFECTIONATELY 
DEDICATED. 



CONTENTS. 



I. THE PALACE HE LEFT. 

II. THE ONE HE BIDS US ENTER. 

III. THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 

IV. THE FULL REWARD. 



THE IVORY PALACES OF 
THE KING. 



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THE PALACE HE LEFT. 

When an Old Testament poet would 
give us a glimpse of the beauty of the 
character of Jesus Christ and press 
upon us some conception as to what 
his incarnation meant to Him by way 
of sacrifice and to us in the fullness of 
blessing, he writes these words: "All 
Thy garments smell of Myrrh and 
Aloes and Cassia, out of the Ivory 
Palaces." These words form only one 
touch of a master's hand in the al- 
most perfect delineation of a perfect 
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character; for the forty-fifth psalm is 
a picture of the Son of God, from the 
first verse almost to the last. It is so 
presented that it appeals to us in diff- 
erent ways. To the eye he is the most 
fair, to the ear most gracious, and his 
garments are so perfumed that even as 
he sweeps past us, by faith, there 
comes to us a better fragrance than 
any that has ever been born of the 
wings of the summer wind. It is the 
purpose of this little book, not only to 
present the 'Ivory Palaces' from which 
he came to be our Saviour but also to 
present the great Palace of a christian's 
life; at the door of which he stands 
to-day beckoning us on, saying, "I am 
come, that they might have life and 
that they might have it more abundant- 
ly." The very idea of a Palace is that of 
splendor. There have been magnifi- 



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cent Palaces in this world like the 
Tuileries of the French, the Windsor 
castle of the English and the Alham- 
bra of the Spanish; but they are not 
for a moment, to be compared to the 
Palaces of Ivory from whence He 
came to redeem the world. 

The Old Testament poet then, could 
only have had this thought in mind: 
that the Palaces of Ivory were over- 
whelmingly beautiful, almost beyond 
the power of words to describe, and 
yet, God so loved the world, and His 
Son was so submissive to His will, 
that the scene in Bethlethem was 
enacted and the death on the cross 
was made real. 

The most touching thing about it all 
to me is this; that He came from such 
a place; to such a place; from the com- 
pany of the angels to this world where 



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His own received Him not: where He 
was despised of men, a pilgrim without 
a home, a wanderer without a friend; 
and yet He knew all about it before. 
He came, and herein is seen His mar- 
velous love, for He was "the lamb slain 
from the foundation of the world." 
Holman Hunt had the idea in his mas- 
ter piece, "The Shadow of the Cross," 
in which he represents Jesus of Naza- 
reth as standing at the carpenter's 
bench where he is wearied with his 
work, and, as the day is dying, he 
lifts Himself from the constrained po- 
sition in which He has been laboring, 
and seeking to relax His muscles, He 
stretches forth his arms, and stands 
thus for a moment while the sunlight 
is coming in at one of the windows 
just at the proper angle to cast at his 
back the shadow of a cross. The 



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artist caught this idea in his picture. 
The shadow of the cross was on him 
at Bethlehem, in Egypt, at Nazareth, 
in Gethsemane and at last deepened 
at Calvary. And yet in the shadows 
ever deepening he moved on to be- 
come our Redeemer. 

I am persuaded that if I could only 
make you feel all that he endured 
as he came out from the Ivory 
Palaces, to be your Saviour, you 
could not resist his power. Another 
thought about his coming may be 
suggestive. From other palaces of 
earth, there is a way that leads out to 
the greater highway. Along this the 
friends make their journeys to and from 
the mansion. Not infrequently they 
may be seen at quite a distance, then 
at a bend in the way, they are lost sight 
of, only to be seen a little nearer, until 



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at last their journey is completed and 
with their friends they are united. As 
I think of Him coming out of the Ivory j 
Palaces, such a highway springs to' 
my mind. It is the Old Testament: 
it is the grand avenue that leads up 
to the gospel dispensation. There 
are very many people who have turned 
away from the Old Testament, with its 
sacrifices and burnt offerings, but that 
man has not yet taken hold of the real 
sweetness of God's book who has 
found it only in the New Testament 
scriptures. The old couplet is true: 

"The new is in the old contained; 
The old is by the new explained. " 

The Old Testament becomes not only 
plain but convincing when you make 
it point to Christ. One of my friends 
took home a dissecting map to his 
little children seeking thus to instruct 



THE PALACE HE LEFT. II 

them in geography. They worked 
diligently to put it together but failed. 
One girl lost her patience and rose up 
from the floor where they were at work 
saying, she would try no more. Her 
foot touched one of the pieces of the 
map and turned it over and she saw 
on the other side a part of a man's 
hand. Turning over another piece 
she saw part of his face and then to 
her great surprise she found a part of 
the figure on every piece before her; 
then she said to her sister, "let us put 
the man together first. " this they did, 
and when the map was turned over 
behold every river, mountain and sea 
was in its proper place. This is the 
secret of Bible study. Put the man 
Christ Jesus together first. Isaac 
bound on the faggots thus becomes a 
representation of Christ, while Abra- 



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ham points to God. Jacob's Ladder 
rising up from Bethel is a type of Jesus 
Christ. One side of the ladder is His 
human nature, the other side of the 
ladder is His divine nature; all the in- 
cidents in His life are the rounds of the 
ladder, and as we stand and look up, 
we hear His voice saying: "By me, if 
any man enter in, he shall be saved." 
The smitten rock in the Old Testa- 
ment tells of Him who said on the 
great day of the feast, "if any man 
thirst let him come unto me and drink." 
The Brazen serpent is a type of him 
who said; "and I if I be lifted up from 
the earth will draw all men unto me." 
Down the long avenue he comes. 
Types and figures get plainer and 
plainer until Bethlehem's gates swing 
open and shepherds are aroused with 
the angel's song: "Unto you is born 



THE PALACE HE LEFT. 1 3 

this day in the city of David a Saviour 
which is Christ the Lord," and from 
His first infant step to the last one 
upon Calvary when, bearing His cross 
he fainted beneath its load, His whole 
life was a seeking after the lost. There 
is not only given to us however, a 
hint of the splendor from which He 
came; there is also a touch of a mas- 
ter's hand which adds great tender- 
ness to the fact of His coming. In 
the cathedral at Notre Dame there is 
an old chest which contains the robes 
worn on great occasions in the ages 
past. It is said that there is the robe 
worn by Pope Pius the VII., at the 
crowning of the first Napoleon, and 
the robe that was worn at the baptism 
of the Second Napoleon. A friend of 
mine said that as these garments were 
before him, there came a perfect rush 



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of historical memories to his mind, and 
so it has seemed to me in order that 
the heart of the beholder might be 
made very tender and the picture of 
Jesus Christ Himself most impressive, 
the poet not only tells us of His com- 
ing incarnation but holds up before 
us the garments He wore. 

Passing through the hall of my own 
home one day, Ibeheld on the couch in 
one of the rooms an old garment I had 
not seen for years. It was made after 
the fashion of twenty-five years ago. If 
one should put it on to-day, it would 
be only to provoke mirth, but as my 
eyes rested upon it, there came to my 
mind one of the tenderest scenes in a 
person's life. It was the last dress I 
had seen my mother wear. I stood 
alone in that room for half an hour 
with my hand upon the garment; the 



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very touch of it seeming to bring be- 
fore me, with ever increasing tender- 
ness, the face of one who had been for 
twenty-three years in heaven. The 
very sight of the garment made the 
tears flow like rain. I am sure the 
Old Testament poet himself must have 
wanted us to have some such concep- 
tion of Jesus Christ when he said there 
was myrrh in his garments. He must 
have had some reference to the very 
sweetness of His life, for myrrh is al- 
ways fragrant — the smallest piece of 
it will fill a room with perfume. It 
was the first thing they gave Him at His 
birth — almost the last thing they 
offered Him upon His cross. 

Did not His garments smell of 
myrrh, because of the sweetness of His 
influence? You cannot wear Him out. 
Put upon him all your burdens. Afflict 



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Him with all your griefs and He is ever 
the same. If we could but tell the story 
of His sweetness and if we could but 
live His life, we could charm the 
drunkard from his cups, the prodigal 
from his wanderings, and the sinner 
from his sins. 

One of my friends owns, the two 
master pieces of Munkasky's "Christ 
before Pilate" and "Christ on Calvary.' 7 
When the former picture was on ex- 
hibiton in the lower part of Canada, 
it is said a rough looking man came to 
the door of the tent and said to the 
attendant, "is Jesus Christ here?" 
When informed that the picture was 
there, he asked the price of admission. 
Throwing down a piece of silver, he 
passed in and stood in the presence of 
the masterpiece. He kept his hat on, 
sat down on the chair before the paint- 



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ing and brushed off the catalogue. 
The one having the picture in charge 
had a desire to see how such a picture 
would move such a man. The man sat 
for a moment and then reverently re- 
moved his hat, stooped and picked up 
the catalogue, and, looking first at it 
and then at that marvelous face which 
seemed to throb with life; tears started 
from his eyes and rolled down his 
cheeks; he sat for an hour, then he left 
the tent and as he went out said: "I 
am a rough sailor from the lakes but I 
promised my mother before I went on 
this last cruise, that I would go and see 
Jesus Christ. I never believed in such 
things before, but a man who could 
paint a picture like that, must be- 
lieve in them, and there is something 
in the picture that makes me believe 
in them too." 



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It is a marvelous thing that there 
is power in a canvass when touched 
by a master hand to save a soul. It 
is also marvelous that your life and 
mine maybe so transformed that peo- 
ple can see in us Jesus Christ; and 
when they behold in us His sweetness 
there is a power before which they 
must surrender. One of the best things 
therefore to represent Him in His 
sweetnesses myrrh. 

There is another touch given to 
the picture which adds both tender- 
ness and pathos. David detected aloes 
in His garments. Very frequently aloes 
mean bitterness. It was a bitter life 
for Christ. The nights on the moun- 
tain, on the sea, and in the desert, 
were nights of bitterness. His bosom 
was the resting place for John, and 
yet He had no place to lay His own 



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head. He fed the five thousand, yet 
ofttimes He was an hungered and 
no man gave unto Him. Bitter be- 
trayal, bitter pain, bitter bereavement 
stung its way through his brain, his 
hands, his heart. 

There was one family that seemed 
to be very near him. They lived at 
Bethany, and one day as he visited 
them, behold Lazarus was dead. He 
knows what it is to miss one from 
the family circle. Lonely and afflicted, 
his eyes filled with tears which flowed 
down his cheeks, upon his breast, and 
then fell to the ground. Aloes in 
His very garments. Oh, ye who have 
done naught but reject Him, how 
would you feel in His presence — who 
to save you, left the Ivory Palaces to 
endure all this? 

There is still another touch to the 



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picture, for Cassia is found in his gar- 
ments. Cassia grows in India, and 
has healing power, and what could it 
mean but that He is the great physi- 
cian? When He was on earth, moth- 
ers lifted their little children to Him 
that He might bless them, and fath- 
ers brought their suffering boys that 
He might set them free. Lepers ran 
crying after Him, that He might drive 
away their uncleanness. Blind men 
reached out to Him in their blindness 
that He might open their eyes. 

When I was in Hartford at one time 
with Mr. and Mrs. Stebbins we were 
asked to visit the Deaf and Dumb 
asylum, and speak and sing to the 
children who never had heard a hu- 
man voice. It was a very novel expe- 
rience, and yet as my friends sang, 
"Shall you? Shall I ?" and the interpre- 



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ter told them the song, it so touched 
their hearts that tears flowed down 
their cheeks. But what moved me 
more than anything else, was one little 
boy who had been born deaf and 
dumb, and who at an early age had 
by sickness lost first his eye sight, 
then the sense of taste and the sense 
of smell; but as they introduced him 
to us, they also presented his teacher, 
a young, frail, beautiful girl, who, 
when the boy was brought to the in- 
stitution, said that she would give 
her life to bring him to the under- 
standing of some language. She taught 
him the language of touch, and I 
saw her fingers move rapidly in the 
palms of his hands, and the boy's 
sightless eyes flashed with intelligence 
as he hurried over the building to 
do her bidding. And I said to my- 



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self that was what Christ did for 
me. I was blind and He opened 
my eyes; deaf, and He unstopped 
my ears and poured into my very 
soul the harmony of heaven; dumb, 
and He unsealed my lips and pressed 
upon them the language of the skies. 
The great physician is a great Saviour, 
and He will help you whatever your 
need may be. 

He came into the world becom- 
ing incarnate, dwelling in the flesh, 
a seeking, sorrowing, suffering Saviour, 
crying out with a tenderness which 
should touch every heart "By me, if 
any man enter, he shall be saved." 
And yet with all that Jesus Christ has 
done there is still something for every 
one of us to do before we may enter 
into the Ivory Palaces of a Christian 
experience. 



II. 

THE PALACE HE BIDS US ENTER. 

The only way to enter this world 
is to be born into it, and the only way 
to enter this Palace of a Christian's 
life is to be born into it. Unto Nico- 
demus, the Master said, "ye must be 
born again," and we too must pass 
through the door by which he entered. 
To the disciples who stood around 
about him he said "except ye be con- 
verted and become as little children 
ye shall not enter into the kingdom of 
heaven. " These are the words of Je- 
sus himself. There can be no author- 
ity beyond his. 

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What hope is there for the moralist, 
when Jesus Himself has said: "Ex- 
cept ye be converted." What ground 
is there for the idea that God is so 
merciful that after a time all may be 
saved, when His only begotten Son 
has said: " Ye shall not enter the king- 
dom except ye be converted." 

He makes the subject all the more 
important when he says: 

"Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot 
offend thee, cut them off, and cast 
them from thee: It is better for thee 
to enter into life halt or maimed, 
rather than having two hands or two 
feet to be cast into everlasting fire." 

"And if thine eye offend thee, pluck 
it out, and cast it from thee; it is bet- 
ter for thee to enter into life with 
one eye, rather than having two eyes 
to be cast into hell fire."* 



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Indeed, this question is so impor- 
tant, that it should be settled before 
anything else. 

WHAT IS CONVERSION? 

When a piece of land is sold it is 
said to have been converted from one 
owner to another. What then is con- 
version for us but the change of own- 
ers. From being Satan's, we become 
Christ's. Our affections, our desires, 
our longings go out to Him. The 
only difference between the two being 
that we submit to the spirit and ac- 
cept the offers of mercy from God. 
The word in its simplest interpreta- 
tion means: "Being turned about. " 
The traveler going in one direction, 
finds that he has made a mistake in 
the way, so he turns squarely about; 
in a sense he has been converted. The 



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old soldier gave a good definition of 
his conversion, when he said that with 
him, it was "right about face." 

For this reason morality will not 
save us. I remember once meeting 
a blind man, who was a neighbor. 
He had the faculty of going to every 
part of the town without a guide, he 
carried a little cane in his hand, with 
which he would touch the trees and 
the fences as he passed. It was just 
the time that I knew he was supposed 
to be going to his dinner, so I stopped 
him, asking him where he was going: 
"To my home," he replied. But I said 
to him: "You are going in the wrong 
direction." He suffered me to take him 
by the hand and turn him about, and 
then walkng in just the same manner, 
but with his faceturned in the new way, 
I saw him as he entered his house. 



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The trouble with our friends who 
are moralists is, that they are very cir- 
cumspect in their actions, genteel in 
their manners, kind in their disposi- 
tion, but they are going in the wrong 
direction ! Their faces are turned 
away from God. 

Perhaps they need not change their 
manner of living very much if they 
are converted, but the whole tendency 
of their living will be changed. 

To be converted is to know: 

ist. That you are a sinner, and 
that without Christ you are lost. 

2nd. To believe that the Lord Jesus 
Christ can save you. 

3d. To submit yourselves entirely 
to Him. 

Yet it is not to be forgotten, that 
while the power is the same, and the 
work is all of God, that no two 



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persons need expect to have the same 
experience. We do not expect this 
in other things, why should we in the 
matter of our salvation? One person 
is of an impulsive, affectionate dispo- 
sition, and he gives his heart to God 
with a great demonstration of affec- 
tion. Another person is of a calm, 
considerate disposition. He comes 
very quietly into-the kingdom. 

Some men are saved from great sin. 
Conversion for them is a change as 
great as from darkness to light. Oth- 
ers are just the opposite, and for years 
they have stood so near the kingdom 
that all they needed was just a simple 
confession of Christ as a Saviour. 
Peter followed the Master with greatest 
demonstration. John and James were 
just the opposite — all three were dis- 
ciples. 



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Saul was converted in the midst of 
the glare of the light of heaven; Nico- 
demus came in the night time, and 
quietly made up his mind to yield to 
the Master — both were saved. 

The blind men were healed in differ- 
ent ways. One had his eyes touched 
by the great physician; another had 
clay and spittle put upon them; an- 
other was simply told to see. One 
saw clearly, another at the first beheld 
men as trees walking. Would it not 
have been the greatest folly for them 
to have doubted their sight, simply 
because their experiences were not 
identical? One thing they could say 
together, that whereas they were 
blind, now they could see, and that 
was the all-important matter. 

It is well to ask how this work is all 
brought about. The ground and foun- 



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dation of it is the finished work of 
Christ; His perfect sacrifice, His com- 
plete atonement. "Believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ and Thou shalt be 
saved." That is the only way. Yet 
the statement, "Except ye be con- 
verted," would seem to indicate that 
there was some person or influence 
outside of and beyond ourselves. And 
this is true. It is the Holy Spirit of 
God. It is His work to arouse us, to 
convict us of sin, to make us feel our 
lost condition and our need of Christ, 
when we are thus awakened, He pre- 
sents Christ to us, then it is for us to 
open the door of the heart, to submit 
our wills to Him, to forsake all and 
follow Him; in other words it is to say 
U I will." The word of God is very 
plain about the matter, that all we 
need to do is simply to believe. 



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"For God so loved the world, that 
he gave His only begotten Son, that 
whosoever believeth in Him should 
not perish, but have everlasting life." 

"For God sent not His Son into the 
world to condemn the world; but that 
the world through Him might be saved. 

"He that believeth on Him is not 
condemned; but he that believeth not 
is condemned already, because he hath 
not believed in the name of the only 
begotten Son of God." John iii: 
16-18. 

In the light of these words, how can 
we longer doubt? I have known of 
those who were saved without great 
conviction of sin, so that one need not 
be discouraged, if he is without this. 
In the 3rd of John, we read that 
Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, 
and there is no evidence that he 



32 THE IVORY PALACES. 

was a great sinner; his life had 
been very circumspect; he was one of 
the Rulers of the Jews; but there was 
a great need in his heart; it was not 
guilt of conscience, but the great void 
in his heart that led him to the Master. 
If you have either, come to Him, for 
He can take away every stain of sin, 
and He can also fill to overflowing 
every longing heart. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, he 
that heareth my word, and believeth 
on Him that sent me, hath everlasting 
life, and shall not come into condem- 
nation; but is passed from death unto 
life." John v: 24. 

There is not a word about feeling, 
nor about getting better, nor under- 
standing the way, but just simply "be- 
lieving." 

May we know just when we were 



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converted? I am very sure that some 
people have had this experience, but 
I am just as sure that there are others 
who have not; this is not discouraging, 
for I should be very sure that I had 
been born, even if I did not know my 
birth-day. I know a man who can tell 
you the day, the hour, almost the sec- 
ond, that he was converted. I was 
sitting by his side, one Friday even- 
ing, at 9:15 o'clock, in a certain part 
of the Lecture room of the church. He 
lifted his eyes to heaven as he said: 
"I will, "and all was settled. But my 
own experience was entirely different. 
I do not know the time when I was 
converted. I remember when I joined 
the church, but I had been a Christian 
long before. One of the greatest 
preachers in these modern times was 
kneeling at the beside of his dying 



34 THE IVORY PALACES. 

father; he had been wayward; his 
father almost with his last breath 
said: "My son, I want you to accept 
Christ, and promise to meet me in 
heaven." And the boy as he knelt 
said: "Father, God helping me, I 
will," and he was converted there. 
But on the other hand, one of the 
best women I know had an experience 
exactly the opposite. 

It is not necessary that you should 
know the moment that you were saved, 
but you may be saved this moment if 
you will but say "I will," to the en- 
treaties of the spirit of God. 

MAY I KNOW IF I HAVE BEEN CONVERTED 

There is nothing of which we may 
be more assured. The key verse of the 
first epistle of John is found in the 
fifth chapter, it is the 13th verse: 



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"These things have I written unto 
you that believe on the name of the 
Son of God that ye may know that 
ye have eternal life." 

We are not to judge by our feelings 
for they may change as often as the 
waves of the sea. We are not always 
to judge by the fact that a great change 
has come over us. 

We are not to be sure because our 
experience has been the same as that 
of another. 

We may be sure only by resting on 
the Word of God. 

Read Romans x: 9: 

"If thou shalt confess with thy 
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt be- 
lieve in thine heart that God hath 
raised him from the dead, thou shalt 
be saved." 

Have you confessed Him? If not 



36 THE IVORY PALACES. 

then do it now, and you may be sure 
of your salvation. 

Read John xx: 31: 

"These are written, that ye might 
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the 
Son of God; and that believing ye 
might have life through His name," 

Do you believe? If not then begin 
now, and you may carry this promise 
to the very throne of God, and claim 
from Him your salvation. 

My strongest reason for believing 
that I am saved, is not that I feel 
happy; nor that my life maybe better 
than in the days gone by, but rather, 
that He has said it. If, therefore, I 
doubt my salvation, I am doubting 
Him. 

WE MUST BECOME AS LITTLE CHILDREN. 

Like them in weakness. But for 



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that very fact, God will place round 
about His everlasting arms, and we 
have nothing to do with the "holding 
out." He will keep us just as the 
earthly parents keep their little ones. 

Like them in willingness to be 
taught. It is not strange that I can- 
not understand before I am saved, for 
the things of God are spiritually dis- 
cerned, and it is not strange that I am 
able to understand so little now that 
I am a child of God, for I am only a 
little child; I need only to be patient; 
the time will come when I may put 
away "childish things." 

Like them in trustfulness. The lit- 
tle child does not understand very 
much that is going on about him; he 
needs only to trust, as he does. And 
that is all that is necessary in the 
Christian life. Just trust, day by day. 



38 THE IVORY PALACES. 

There are two passages of scripture 
which make it apparent to me that the 
Christian life is a growth. The first is 
the entrance. "Verily I say unto you 
except ye be converted and become as 
little children, ye shall not enter into 
the kingdom of heaven." 

The second is the close of the jour- 
ney. "Till we all come in the unity 
of the faith and the knowledge of the 
Son of God, unto a perfect man> unto 
the measure of the stature of the full- 
ness of Christ. ,, 

All the way between the two is the 
Christian life. 

If therefore, you will but take His 
hand, trust absolutely in Him, and 
cease entirely to rest upon self, you 
may this day step across the threshold 
into life, 



III. 

THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 

Many people have supposed that 
when once they had accepted the offers 
of mercy through Jesus Christ that that 
was the christian life. I once occupied 
this position myself, I now believe 
that it was but stepping over the 
threshold and that all the chambers 
of the king's palace from this point 
on await our exploration and enjoy- 
ment. There is an ever increasing, 
enlarging blessing which we may have 
by simply receiving it. This is not 
at all a question of regeneration. It 
is a question of the life more abundant ; 
39 



40 THE IVORY PALACES. 

of deep abiding peace and of power 
with God and men. It touches not so 
much the Father nor the Son ; it brings 
you face to face with the third person 
of the blessed Trinity, the Holy Ghost. 
There is no question which could be 
better put to us than the one Paul 
asked of the Corinthian church mem- 
bers, as he met them in Ephesus. 
"Have ye received the Holy Ghost 
since ye believed." There may be 
life without the answer — there cer- 
tainly cannot be power. There is a 
woeful amount of ignorance concerning 
the Holy Ghost. We do not seem 
to be impressed with His personality. 
We not infrequently use an imper- 
sonal pronoun in our petitions and re- 
marks in referring to Him, when the 
fact is he shares with God the Father 
and the Son, the honor and power of 



THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 41 

the Godhead. The successful chris- 
tian everywhere is the one who honors 
Him and makes room for His entrance 
and control over their entire being. 

What a change there would be in 
our christian living and in our chris- 
tian experience, did we but have a 
definite testimony concerning this one 
question. One of my friends in New 
York city, has given up a high social 
position and all selfish interests that 
she may work among the fallen women 
of the metropolis. She has opened 
the "Door of Hope" for every one who 
would apply for admission. One even- 
ing, leaving her home, she took a pink 
rose, saying she would give it to the 
vilest woman she would meet in her 
wanderings. In a Mulberry street dive, 
she found her subject; a young girl 
with face bruised and bleeding, eyes 



42 THE IVORY PALACES. 

blood-shot, clad in rags and surrounded 
by a band of New York's worst char- 
acters; the vilest profanity was pro- 
ceeding out of her mouth. My friend 
pushed her way through the crowd 
and put the pink rose in her hand with 
the request that if she ever needed a 
friend she would call upon her. The 
girl received the gift with a sneer. 
My friend passed on about her work, 
but with a prayer that God might touch 
her heart. Some days afterwards she 
found her sitting in the entry of the 
"Door of Hope" looking even more 
wretched than when her eyes first be- 
held her. Her first thought was to 
send her away, thinking that she was 
too low to be saved. Her second 
thought was, what would the Master 
do if he were here in my stead; and 
then with a great rush of love because 



THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 43 

she beheld a soul for whom Christ died, 
she stooped and took her sin stained 
face in her hands and kissed her twice. 
The touch of love broke the girl's 
heart. She fell upon her knees in the 
entry and then and there gave herself 
to God. She became transformed, 
almost transfigured. She went up and 
down the streets of New York City 
into the lowest haunts of sin, herself a 
missionary and evangelist to her fallen 
sisters. Wherever she went she car- 
ried the light of heaven. Whenever 
she spoke it was with the power of 
God. A few months later she lay in 
her coffin at the "Door of Hope." 
Hundreds flocked to look at the face 
which was like an angel's and went 
away to thank God that she had not 
lived in vain. With a record of only 
a short christian experience, my friend 



44 THE IVORY PALACES. 

writes me that more than a hundred 
souls had been converted to Jesus 
Christ through her ministry. This 
change was all wrought because first of 
all she received the Son of God as her 
personal Saviour, and then that she 
threw open every door of her nature 
for the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. 
The change was great but not greater 
than would be witnessed in the 
life of any child of God who would 
make an unconditional surrender to 
the spirit of God bidding him at any 
cost, at any sacrifice, to come in and 
abide with him. 

It is very encouraging to know 
that we do not need to pray for 
the spirit of God as if he were 
afar off. In one sense the hymn is 
wrong where we say "come Holy Spirit 
heavenly dove" for he is here and is but 



THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 45 

waiting to completely fill us. There 
is a beautiful figure in the Old Testa- 
ment which some one has used with 
great blessing. In the days of the 
flood Noah opened the window of the 
ark and the little dove flew forth and 
finding no place to rest the sole of its 
foot it came back again to the out- 
stretched hand. The second time he 
opened the window the dove flew 
forth and finding an olive branch bore 
it back to the hand of Noah. The 
third time he opened the window of 
the ark, the dove flew hither and thith- 
er and finding a resting place for the 
sole of its foot, it came back no more 
forever. The dove is always a figure 
representing the Holy Spirit. He 
came first in the Old Testament touch- 
ing Abraham and Moses and Isaiah 
and others, but does not seem to abide 



46 THE IVORY PALACES. 

permanently; he came again when 
Jesus Christ was crucified and pluck- 
ing the olive branch from the cross, he 
made his way back to God saying, 
"peace hath been made in the death of 
the Son." He came the third time at 
Pentecost with a rushing sound as of 
a mighty wind filling all the place 
where the people sat, resting upon 
them with cloven tongues like as of fire 
never gone back since the day of Pen- 
tecost. He is here, waiting to fill us if 
we but fulfill the conditions. 

For many years in my christian ex- 
perience I was somewhat troubled by 
the fact that I could not tell just the day 
or the hour in which I was converted. It 
has ceased to trouble me now, and 
first, because I should know I were 
living in this world, even if I did not 
know my birthday. And secondly, 



THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 47 

because there is something far better 
than knowing just the time you were 
converted and that is, a definite expe- 
rience concerning the receiving fully 
of the Holy Ghost. It is a very seri- 
ous question in my mind whether any 
one can have a full experience of 
power, until first of all, they have had 
definite experience concerning the re- 
ceiving of the Holy Ghost. Have you 
had this? 

There are some things which might 
be suggested which may make the way 
plainer for us all. There must be a 
deep longing for his coming, even as 
we longed for salvation through Jesus 
Christ. When we are satisfied with 
nothing else, when we long for noth- 
ing more, I believe He will come in 
and fill us and \he result will be power. 

Some times we find people longing 



48 THE IVORY PALACES. 

for such an experience in order that 
they may have peace or blessedness. 
Not infrequently ministers cry out for 
Him that they may have more power 
in preaching. I am convinced that 
He will never fill us so long as these 
are the first thoughts. Bid Him come 
in that he may have power over your- 
self first, and you are on the way to 
enlarging blessings. Let Him come 
in that he may drive out everything 
contrary to the will of God and 
you will find yourself very shortly 
in a full possession of His power. 
There is another suggestion which 
must not be over-looked, namely, 
there must be a full surrender. He 
can never fill the heart that is only 
partially given up. Every door of the 
nature, every impluse of the will, 
every affection of the heart must be 



THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 49 

surrendered to Him. Then we may 
expect Him. 

Rev. F. B. Meyer has made two 
helpful suggestions just here. If you 
cannot at once reach this position, 
then come before Him and say, 
"Lord I am willing to be made willing 
about everything," and "if you cannot 
give up everything for God then say 
'I will let thee take everything. '" 
Then another suggestion is this, we 
must receive him by faith. The 
foundation for it is in Galatians iii: 
14, "That you might receive the pro- 
mise of the spirit through faith." I 
am convinced that if one fulfills the 
conditions, he has a perfect right to 
stand before God claiming the promise 
of the Holy Spirit, with a faith which 
may be utterly devoid of emotion, just 
as one has the right to claim the free 



5<D THE IVORY PALACES. 

gift of salvation when he has surren- 
dered his will unto God. 

Why have we not received the Holy 
Ghost ? It may be because we have dis- 
obeyed some clear command. Mr. 
Meyer well says "if one has broken one 
of God's commands, or has been a dis- 
obedient child, he can never be filled 
with the power of God, neither can he 
claim His blessings, until he goes back 
to the place where he made the mistake 
and makes it right with his God." 

It may be because we have not con- 
fessed our sins. The trouble with us 
is not so much that we sin, but rather 
than when we sin, we do not immedi- 
ately confess it before God. The 
abiding of an unforgiven sin in the 
heart of the Christian will absolutely 
prevent the infilling of the Holy Ghost. 
It may because we have too little com- 



THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 51 

munion with God in his word. When 
one of my friends was presiding at a 
great convention in the City of Wash- 
ington a number of years ago, in the 
midst of the deliberations a number of 
Indian chiefs who had been conferring 
with the President came into the con- 
vention. They looked about with in- 
terest. At last an old chief through 
an interpreter rose and spoke. He 
said, "what is the secret of all this 
happiness? Our men do not look like 
yours; their faces are sad; their hearts 
heavy. Our women are not like yours. 
Our children are growing up in igno- 
rance. Our homes are miserable. 
Tell us if you can, what the medicine 
is which we must take." Then General 
O. O. Howard, with his empty coat 
sleeve, his arm being left on the bat- 
tle field, sprang forward, and, lifting 



52 THE IVORY PALACES. 

up the Bible in one hand, cried out 
"Mr. Speaker tell him that this is the 
good medicine." And it is quite true, 
it is the medicine which will cure the 
world's sickness; it is the medicine 
which will fill you with a new life, 
purging your heart from all that is 
evil, making your heart free from all 
that is sinful, making your heart throb 
with new impluses emotions and de- 
sires. Your trouble may be here. 

Not long ago, a woman died in Lon- 
don. A few years ago she was utterly 
unknown, but at her funeral a great 
concourse of people passed through 
the great church to look upon her face. 
There were representatives of royalty ; 
lords and ladies, people of high degree. 
Then the poorer people came. Finally 
there came one woman carrying a little 
babe on one arm and holding another 



THE ENLARGING BLESSING. 53 

child by the hand. She reached the 
casket, put the baby down and was 
just bending over to kiss the glass that 
covered the sweet face when the guard 
exclaimed, "move on, move on. " Stop- 
ping for a moment and looking at him, 
she lifted up her hand and shouted 
out until every one in the church heard 
her. "I will not move on. This wo- 
man saved my boy and I have a right 
to look." It was Mrs. Booth who was 
resting in her coffin. One of the 
grandest women of all God's family; 
she had been transformed by the 
Holy Ghost and thus became a winner 
of souls. So may we all be. 

Out in the hill country of Scotland 
a shepherd counted his flock and found 
that three sheep were missing. Going 
to the kennel where the shepherd dog 
was resting with her young, he pointed 



54 THE IVORY PALACES. 

to the wilderness and said "three sheep 
are missing, go." The dog looked for 
a moment at her young and then at 
her master, and was lost in the night. 
She was gone an hour, then came 
back bruised by the thorns and beaten 
by the wolves but she had the two 
sheep that were lost. The shepherd 
counted his flock once more; finding 
one still missing. He stood again at 
the kennel door where the mother 
was resting with her little ones. Point- 
ing to the wilderness once more, he 
said "go." With a look of mute dis- 
pair first at her little ones, then into 
his face, she rose up and was lost in 
the darkness. Two hours passed and 
then three, then she came back 
bruised, bleeding, almost dying, but 
she had the one sheep that was lost. 
The shepherd picked it up, wrapped it 



THE ENLARGING bLESSING. $$ 

in his shepherd's plaid and turned away 
to his fold, while the dog staggering 
back to her young, reached the ken- 
nel door and fell dead. 

When I read it, I said, Oh, that a 
dumb beast of the field with no thought 
of God, no hope of eternity, no pros- 
pects of hearing the Master say "well 
done, well done," should be so faith- 
ful to its master's command, while we 
sit with folded arms as our Master, 
with his pierced palm is pointing to 
the wilderness saying/' the thousands, 
are lost, go, go." If we were but 
filled with the Spirit of God we 
would heed His cry. "Have you re- 
ceived the Holy Ghost since you be- 
lieved?" 



IV. 

THE FULL REWARD. 

Even after one has accepted Jesus 
Christ, entered the Palace of Life, and 
received the Holy Ghost fully, there 
is still something before him in the 
way of Christian experience. It comes 
when one has passed through all the 
chambers of the king and stands in 
His presence, whom, having not seen 
we love. It is written in ii John viii. 
"Look to yourselves that we receive a 
full reward ;" it is of that I write; 

I am not at all surprised to hear 
Peter, in the 19th chapter of the 
Gospel of Matthew and the 27th verse, 
56 



THE FULL REWARD. 57 

put the question to the Master "Be- 
hold we have forsaken all and fol- 
lowed thee; what shall we have there- 
fore?'' because Peter had about him a 
great deal of human nature. Many 
times we have found ourselves pon- 
dering over the same problem. We 
have made sacrifices for Christ; we 
have been in the very thickest of the 
fight for Him; we have labored zeal- 
ously in the field when it was white 
unto the harvest, and we have often 
said, what shall we have for all this? 
This is the answer. The Christian 
ought not to work simply because of 
the reward before him, nor ought he 
on the other hand to lose sight of the 
reward. I have been very much im- 
pressed with the subject of crowns 
presented in the New Testament. I 
once had an idea that they were all 



58 THE IVORY PALACES. 

one and the same; that if it was said 
in one place that I might have the 
crown of life, and in another place the 
crown of righteousness, it was simply 
a different way of stating the same 
thought. This is as far from the truth 
as anything could possibly be. They 
are each different from the other and 
are given for different reasons, as re- 
wards for different kinds of service; 
and while every Christian may have 
one, it is an inspiration to know that 
every Christian may have them all. 

The subject of crowns is in itself 
interesting. The crown of Ivan the 
terrible had eight hundred and forty- 
one diamonds in it; the crown of Peter 
the great, eight hundred and eighty- 
seven ; the crown of England seventeen 
hundred; the crown of Imperial Rus- 
sia, twenty-five hundred; the crown of 



THE FULL REWARD. 59 

France five thousand, three hundred 
and fifty-two. You know how one 
little gem sparkles in the ring on your 
finger as it is touched by the sunlight. 
Can you imagine the overwhelming 
splendor of the crown of France, stud- 
ded with diamonds? How glad I am 
that the crown of the poorest saint of 
God is infinitely better than this. 

It is not a question of our being 
saved. Faith as a grain of mustard 
seed might remove mountains and the 
same amount of faith can save a soul. 
It is entirely a question of service. 

I hold up these five crowns as an 
inspiration. 

THE CROWN OF LIFE. 

James i: 12; "Blessed is the man 
that endureth temptation, for when 
he is tried he shall receive the crown 



60 THE IVORY PALACES. 

of life." This is for those who live a 
passive Christian life; this is the mar- 
tyr's crown. I imagine many a one 
standing before the judgment seat of 
Christ, not to be judged for their sin 
for that is all put away at the cross, 
but to receive the reward, and being 
obliged to say to the judge: "I did 
very little for thee, indeed nothing but 
suffer; I had an aching head, and a 
weak side and an irritated lung all the 
way, but I did the best I could. I 
tried to be peaceful and patient; I 
could not enter the thickest of the 
fight; I was very rarely in the meet- 
ings; my voice was still where others 
were heard, and all that I could do 
was just simply to pray that the work 
of God might go forward." I imagine 
there are many like the man who 
prayed faithfully for his pastor, and, 



THE FULL REWARD. 6 1 

for fourteen years that minister had 
a constant accession to his church. 
There never was a communion with- 
out people coming to confess Christ. 
Men wondered at his success. They 
said it was not in his preaching, for he 
was not an extraordinary preacher, 
but still the people came. At the 
close of his pastorate, when he was 
saying "good-bye" to his friends, he 
called upon this bed-ridden saint who 
had never heard him preach. He took 
the thin, wasted hand in his, and then 
heard this confession; "Pastor, I have 
never heard you preach in all these 
years, but there has never been a day 
that I have not prayed that God 
would give you souls as a result of 
your preaching,' 7 and then the secret 
was out. 

A Russian soldier on picket duty 



62 THE IVORY PALACES. 

was found by a peasant without an 
overcoat. The peasant took off his 
own great coat, gave it to the soldier 
and hurried home. Chilled through 
and through by the Russian winter, 
in a little while he died, but before he 
died he had a dream in which he 
seemed to stand in the very presence 
of Christ. When he opened his eyes 
he told his friends that he had seen 
the Master, and the strangest thing 
he said, "He had near Him the great 
coat." And when he asked Him what 
it meant, He simply said — "I was 
naked and ye clothed me." 

Never a kind word, a cup of cold 
water, a pleasant smile, an earnest 
prayer given in the name of the Lord 
Jesus, but you will meet the reward, 
and the reward shall be the Crown of 
Life. 



THE FULL REWARD. 63 

THE INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN. 

I Cor. ix:255. This is exactly the 
opposite of the other. This is for the 
man who leads an aggressive Chris- 
tian life. Paul had this in his mind 
when he said, he was striving for the 
crown that is incorruptible. We will 
get a better meaning of the closing 
part of the chapter if we translate the 
word "castaway," as it should be and 
make it "disapproved." We thus have 
the picture of the great apostle striv- 
ing on the race course to reach the 
goal, which is a picture of what many 
a Christian should be doing in his life 
here below. It was the spirit which 
Paul had when he said, "Now behold 
I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusa- 
lem;" and again, "This one thing I do;" 
and again, "Laying aside every weight 
I press forward;" and again, "I am 



64 THE IVORY PALACES. 

willing to suffer the loss of all things." 
It is the spirit we should have if we 
realized the lost condition of men. 
The church is all wrong in its ideas 
when it says, "we have opened our 
doors, the music is good, the pews 
are free, the preaching is of the very 
best, the people are welcome, let them 
come." This is not the spirit of the 
Master. He said, "Go out after the 
lost," and if you will read the parable 
of the lost sheep, the lost piece of 
money, and the prodigal son, you will 
find how far you are to go and how 
long you are to seek. It is all summed 
up in the little word "until." This is 
the warrant for changing your method 
if the old method will not work. 

It is said that the great conflagration 
in London could have been easily 
stopped if the firemen could have pro- 



THE FULL REWARD. 65 

ceeded at once against it, but they 
could not do so until they had received 
the order from the Lord Mayor, and 
he could not give the order until he 
had entered his office, seated himself 
in his official chair, donned the robes 
of office, and in the regular way sent 
forth the message for them to fight the 
flames. By that time they were be- 
yond control. 

We sometimes find this spirit in the 
church of to-day. There is such a 
thing as a church being dead because 
of dignity and conservatism, and it is 
an inspiration to know that there is a 
crown awaiting the man whose spirit is 
exactly the opposite. 

THE CROWN OF REJOICING. 

I Thess. ii: 19. If there is one more to 
be desired than another, it is this one. 



66 THE IVORY PALACES. 

The Thessalonians were Paul's 
crown of rejoicing, because he had led 
them to Christ. This is the crown 
that Wesley is wearing. Baxter has 
found it. Whitefield and Edwards 
received it. It is awaiting Moody. 
Spurgeon has already had it placed 
upon his brow, for we are told that 
he was able during his ministry to lead 
thirteen thousand by profession into 
his own church, and this was but the 
beginning of the multitudes that were 
won to Christ throughout the world 
under his influence. It is the crown 
I long to wear. This is the soul win- 
ners' crown. Oh, that we all might 
receive it. You know nothing of real 
joy without you have been the instru- 
ment in God's hands of leading a soul 
to Christ. 



THE FULL REWARD. 67 

THE CROWN OF GLORY. 

I Peter v: 4. "But when the chief 
Shepherd shall appear ye shall re- 
ceive the Crown of Glory." In Ephe- 
sians we are told that "He gave some 
apostles" and that office has ceased. 
"He gave some prophets" and that has 
ceased. "He gave some evangelists" 
and to my mind that is the highest 
office in the church; and "He gave 
some pastors." It would be just as 
correct to call them shepherds. There 
is no Christian in the world but has 
received a commission from the Mas- 
ter, to do as He would if He were in 
this world, and what he said to Peter, 
he says to us all, "Feed my sheep." 
It will be a glad day when the church 
has more pastors than the one who 
has been called to stand in the sacred 
desk and preach. I had sixteen el- 



68 THE IVORY PALACES. 

ders in my own church, and I counted 
them as shepherds of the flock, and 
God looks upon them in the same way 
and will hold them responsible. There 
are many Christians in the church who 
can do the same work. Not a Sunday 
school teacher but unto him God has 
committed the same service. It will 
be a day of rejoicing when the mem- 
bers of the church feel their responsi- 
bility to use all their influence in hold- 
ing up those who have given them- 
selves to Christ. The cry in these 
days is for the minister that will draw; 
the greater cry should be for people 
that are able to hold those who are 
drawn to the church of Christ. I am 
sure the Holy Spirit had this in mind 
when he held out this fourth crown as 
a reward. I know people who are 
afraid of the results of revivals. It 



THE FULL REWARD. 69 

all depends upon the condition of the 
church. If we let the people come in 
and then allow them to drift out, the 
last state of the man is apt to be worse 
than the first; but if, when they come 
in, we throw round about them the 
arms of our sympathy, and our prayers, 
we will soon find that they will be 
able to take their place in all the ser- 
vices of the church. If the church is 
spiritual, the new members will be 
spiritual. If it is wordly, they will 
take upon themselves the same char- 
acter. The rule is, that the new 
members will always average up to the 
old ones. I can remember when my 
own little girl was just beginning to 
walk, we were obliged to hold our 
arms about her as she took her first 
steps, but now we never think of 
doing it, she can run the whole day 



70 THE IVORY PALACES. 

and not be weary. The spirit of the 
church is often times to hold back 
until it can be determined if the new 
converts will hold out. Christ's way 
would be to take a new member 
by the hand at once, and help him 
where he is weakest. This is the best 
service of the church, and he who is 
faithful in this respect, shall receive 
the Crown of Glory when the chief 
Shepherd shall appear. 

THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

I Timothy iv: 8. To me, this stands 
side by side with the crown of rejoic- 
ing. Sometimes I am almost per- 
suaded to place it first. 

It may be at morn, when the day is awaking, 
When sunlight thro' darkness and shadow is break- 
ing, 
That Jesus will come in thefullnessof glory, 
To receive from the world ''His own." 



THE FULL REWARD. 71 

O joy! O delight! should we go without dying. 
No sickness, no sadness, no dread and no crying, 
Caught up thro' the clouds with our Lord into glo- 
ry* 

When Jesus receives -'His own.'' 

Are you ready? For those who go 
with uplifted face, crying, "O Lord 
Jesus, how long?" He will come, and 
His reward will be with Him — It will 
be the Crown of Righteousness. 

But there is something better still, 
and that is the full reward in Revela- 
tion iv: 4. This is a picture of the 
glorified church. We are told that the 
four and twenty elders came in with 
crowns upon their heads, clothed with 
white raiment, seated about the throne. 
In the 10th verse, suddenly the King 
of Kings appears. At once the four 
and twenty elders fall down before 
Him, and taking off their crowns, cast 
them before the throne, saying, "Thou 



72 . THE IVORY PALACES. 

art worthy, O Lord, to receive Glory, 
and Honor, and Power," so that the 
best reward of all is to be with Him. 

That was a glad day in 1855, when 
the soldiers came back from the Cri- 
mean War, and the Queen gave them 
medals, called Crimean medals. Gal- 
leries were constructed for the two 
Houses of Parliament and the royal 
family to witness the presentation 
Her majesty herself came in to give 
the soldiers their rewards. Here 
comes a colonel who lost both his feet 
at Inkerman; he was wheeled in on a 
chair. Here is a man whose arms are 
gone — and so they came, maimed and 
halt. Then the Queen, in the name 
of the English people, gave the med- 
als, and the thousands of people with 
streaming eyes sang, "God save the 
Queen. " But I can think of something 



THE FULL REWARD. 73 

that would have made the scene more 
wonderful. If these men had taken 
off the medals which the Queen had 
placed upon them, and cast them back 
at her feet saying: "No, your majesty, 
we cannot keep them, we give back the 
medals. To see thee is the greatest 
reward." That shall we do in heaven. 
I have a friend who was in the Cri- 
mean war; he told me that he had re- 
ceived a medal with Inkerman upon 
it —for that was his battle ; but he said 
the most touching part of it all was 
the experience of a friend of his who 
fought by his side. A cannon ball 
took off one of his legs, but the brave 
fellow sprang up immediately and 
taking hold of a tree, drew his sword, 
and was ready to fight even to death. 
Immediately another cannon ball came 
crashing past and took off the other 



74 THE IVORY PALACES. 

leg. They carried him, wounded, 
bleeding, and as they supposed dying, 
to the hospital. Strangely enough he 
came back to life again, and when the 
day came for the awarding of medals 
they carried him upon his stretcher 
before Her Majesty, the Queen. To 
the other soldiers she had simply given 
the medals by the hands of her secre- 
tary, but when she saw this man car- 
ried in on a stretcher, his face so thin 
and pale, she rose from her throne 
stooped down by his side and pinned 
with her own hands the medal upon 
his breast, while the tears fell like rain 
upon the face of the brave soldier. 

Thus I trust it will be with many of 
us. We shall come into His presence, 
stand face to face with Him, and He 
will rise from His throne coming for- 
ward to rceive us, and as we look up 



THE FULL REWARD. 75 

into His face, thrones will vanish away 
and crowns will be as nothing, for to 
see Him with all his beauty will be 
the full reward. 



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